xxx, 725 pages : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nanotechnologies for diagnosis : present and future / Gareth A. Hughes -- Superparamagnetic nanoparticles of iron oxides for magnetic resonance imaging applications / Jean-Marc Idee, Marc Port, Isabelle Raynal, Michel Schaefer, Bruno Bonnemain, Philippe Prigent, Philippe Robert, Caroline Robic, and Claire Corot -- Carbon nanotube-based vectors for delivering immunotherapeutics and drugs / Alberto Bianco, Wei Wu, Giorgia Pastorin, Cédric Klumpp, Lara Lacerda, Charalambos D. Partidos, Kostas Kostarelos, and Maurizio Prato -- Core-shell nanoparticles for drug delivery and molecular imaging / Sung Kyun Han, Ree Sun Kim, Jin Ho Lee, Giyoong Tae, Sun Hang Cho, and Soon Hong Yuk -- Nanotechnologies for targeted delivery of drugs / Pavel Brož and Patrick Hunziker -- Nanoporous and nanosize materials for drug delivery systems / Yoshinobu Fukumori, Kanji Takada and Hirofumi Takeuchi -- NANOEGG technology for drug delivery / Yoko Yamaguchi and Rie Igarashi -- Polymeric nanomaterials : synthesis, functionalization and applications in diagnosis and therapy / Jutta Rieger, Christine Jérôme, Robert Jérôme, and Rachel Auzély-Velty -- Polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery / Paraskevi Kallinteri and Martin C. Garnett -- Solid lipid and polymeric nanoparticles for drug delivery / José Luis Pedraz, Gorka Orive, Manoli Igartua, Alicia R. Gascón, Rosa M. Hernández, Maria Angeles Solinis, and Amaia Esquisabel -- Intelligent hydrogels in nanoscale sensing and drug delivery applications / J. Zach Hilt -- Nanoshells for drug delivery / Melgardt M. De Villiers and Yuri M. Lvov -- Bionanoparticles and their biomedical applications / L. Andrew Lee, Hannah N. Barnhill, and Qian Wang -- Nanotechnology for gene therapy : HVJ-E vector / Hironori Nakagami, Yasuhiko Tabata, and Yasufumi Kaneda -- Nanotoxicology of synthetic gene transfer vectors : poly(ethyleneimine)- and polyfectin-mediated membrane damage and apoptosis in human cell lines / Seyed M. Moghimi -- Nanoparticles for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease : theoretical rationale, present status and future perspectives / Gang Liu, Ping Men, George Perry and Mark A. Smith

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